CV
Education
- Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics, National Taiwan University (NTU), 2015 GPA: 3.85
- M.S. in Applied Mechanics, National Taiwan University (NTU), 2012 GPA: 3.93
- Chinese Language Studies, National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU), 2010
- B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas (UCA), 2008 GPA: 8.23
- Technical High School Diploma in Mechanics, Instituto Técnico Ricaldone (ITR), 2002 GPA: 9.2
Work experience
- Senior Research Engineer, Cenaero ASBL
- 2022 - present
- GPU port and optimization of FIDELIO (WINGS-II) with CUDA C++ and HIP/ROCm
- Developed a GPU-accelerated FV-LB solver for rarefied gas flows (MaiSoVI)
- Assessed GPU particle / MPM methods for mechanical engineering (VirtualLab)
- Postdoctoral Researcher ANR MAMIES, Institut Pprime — University of Poitiers
- 2022 - 2022
- Experimental–computational work on time-reversal aeroacoustics for the MAMIES project
- Project lead: Vincent Valeau
- Postdoctoral Researcher FEDER/NAE, ISAE-ENSMA — Institut Pprime
- 2020 - 2021
- High-order immersed boundary methods (IBM) for aeroacoustics in Xcompact3d
- Project leads: Véronique Fortuné and David Marx
- Postdoctoral Researcher ANR MAMIES, Institut Jean Le Rond d’Alembert — Sorbonne University
- 2019 - 2020
- CFD/CAA algorithms; DG solvers and data assimilation / time-reversal for acoustic sources
- Project leads: Régis Marchiano and Vincent Valeau
- Postdoctoral Researcher NSC, Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Nanomedicine (NHRI)
- 2016 - 2018
- Multi-GPU WENO solvers for nonlinear acoustic propagation (CUDA, MPI, OpenMP)
- Project lead: Maxim Solovchuk
- Junior Mechanical Designer, Ingendehsa S.A. de C.V.
- 2008 - 2009
- Design of valves, cranes, and pressurized pipelines for hydroelectric plants
- AutoCAD and Autodesk Inventor parameterized models linked to Excel calculations
Skills
Languages: Spanish (Native), English (C2), Chinese (B1), French (A2) Programming: Python 3, MATLAB, Mathematica, C/C++, Fortran, LaTeX, Git, Bash, CMake Libraries: CUDA, HIP/ROCm, MPI, MPI-IO, HDF5, OpenMP, PETSc Tools: Visual Studio Code, Vim, Emacs, Jupyter, NSight Compute, valgrind Interests: CFD, computational aeroacoustics (CAA), thermoacoustics, data assimilation, time reversal, WENO/FVM/FDM/FEM/DG, GPU computing
Publications
Yinshi Zhou, Manuel Diaz, David Marx, Régis Marchiano, Christian Prax, Vincent Valeau, "Localizing aeroacoustic sources in complex geometries: A hybrid method coupling 3D microphone array and time-reversal." Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2024.
A Neelan, R Chandran, Manuel Diaz, Raimund Bürger, "An efficient three-level weighted essentially non-oscillatory scheme for hyperbolic equations." Computational and Applied Mathematics, 2023.
Manuel Diaz, Véronique Fortuné, David Marx, Christian Prax, "A High-Order Immersed Boundary Technique for Computational Aeroacoustics." In the proceedings of Congrès Français d'Acoustique, 2022.
Manuel Escobar, Régis Marchiano, Jean-Camille Chassaing, "Identification of Aeroacoustics Sources with Data Assimilation." In the proceedings of Forum Acusticum, 2020.
Yinshi Zhou, Manuel Escobar, Régis Marchiano, David Marx, Christian Prax, Vincent Valeau, "Aeroacoustic Source Identification with Effects of Solid Boundaries Using a Numerical Time-reversal Technique." In the proceedings of Forum Acusticum, 2020.
Manuel Diaz, Maxim Solovchuk, Tony Sheu, "High-performance multi-GPU solver for describing nonlinear acoustic waves in homogeneous thermoviscous media." Computers & Fluids, 2018.
Manuel Diaz, Maxim Solovchuk, Tony Sheu, "A Conservative Numerical Scheme for Modeling Nonlinear Acoustic Propagation in Thermoviscous Homogeneous Media." Journal of Computational Physics, 2018.
Manuel Diaz, Jaw-Yen Yang, "An Efficient Direct Solver for Rarefied Gas Flows with Arbitrary Statistics." Journal of Computational Physics, 2016.
Manuel Diaz, "Modeling Rarefied Gas Flows of Arbitrary Statistics with the Semiclassical Boltzmann-BGK Equation." Institute of Applied Mechanics, Taiwan University, 2015.
Manuel Diaz, Min-Hung Chen, Jaw-Yen Yang, "High-Order Conservative Asymptotic-Preserving Schemes for Modeling Rarefied Gas Dynamical Flows with Boltzmann-BGK Equation." Communications in Computational Physics, 2015.
Jaw-Yen Yang, Chih-Yuan Yan, Manuel Diaz, Juan-Chen Huang, Zhihui Li, Hanxin Zhang, "Numerical Solutions of Ideal Quantum Gas Dynamical Flows Governed by Semiclassical Ellipsoidal-Statistical Distribution." In the proceedings of Proc. R. Soc. A, 2014.
Jaw-Yen Yang, Manuel Diaz, WY Kang, JC Huang, "Asymptotic-Preserving Weno Schemes for Boltzmann Model Equations and Rarefied Gas Flow Simulation." In the proceedings of Proceedings of the Korea Society of Computational Fluids Engineering, 2014.
Talks
April 11, 2022
Conference at Congrès Français d'Acoustique, France
December 07, 2020
Conference at Forum Acusticum, Lyon, France
December 07, 2020
Conference at Forum Acusticum, Lyon, France
August 04, 2019
Conference at International Conference in honor for the 90th birthday of Sergei K. Godunov, Novosibirsk, Russia
July 20, 2018
NHRI Research Day Talk at National Health Research Institutes (NHRI), Zhunan, Taiwan
May 15, 2017
Conference at Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, ParCFD 2017, UK, Glasgow
July 12, 2016
Conference at 21st International Symposium on Nonlinear Acoustics, US, Santa Fe, New Mexico
October 22, 2015
Conference at First Association of Computational Mechanics, Taipei, Taiwan
July 20, 2014
Conference at 1th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XI), 5th European Conference on Computational Mechanics (ECCM V), 6th European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (ECFD VI), Barcelona, Spain
January 01, 2014
Conference at Korea Society of Computational Fluids Engineering, Korea
November 09, 2011
Conference at Eighth International Conference on Flow Dynamics, Japan, Sendai
Teaching
Honors
- 2018 Best Paper Presentation Award, National Health Research Institutes (NHRI)
- 2014 Engineering Faculty Fellowship, National Taiwan University (NTU)
- 2011 Best Individual Project, Institute of Applied Mechanics, NTU
- 2009 Taiwan Scholarship Recipient, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Taiwan
- 2008 Top Graduate in Mechanical Engineering, Salvadorian Association of Mechanical Electrical and Industrial Engineers
Qualifications
- Qualification for Associate Professor (Maître de Conférences), Section 60, 2022